bookie

Example Sentences

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A bookie needs to close the betting window to this fan while keeping it open an optimal bit longer for fans watching on a screen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Being in debt can unquestionably make you less safe even if the threat is a lack of health care or housing, not a bookie.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

Federal authorities are investigating the allegations against him as well as Mathew Bowyer, the suspected sports bookie to whom Mizuhara was said to have sent money.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2024

Would Maniscalco be game to portray a Los Angeles bookie adjusting his business plan as the legalization of sports gambling looms?

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2023

"There's something I didn't write down. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler . . . he's a bookie."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin